US physicians put patients' best interests above concerns about health care costs

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study of attitudes about health care costs reveals that an overwhelming majority of U.S. physicians feel a responsibility to address costs, but prioritize their obligations to patients? best interests over cost concerns.

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Geochemical 'fingerprints' leave evidence that megafloods eroded steep gorge

[unable to retrieve full-text content]For the first time, scientists have direct geochemical evidence that the 150-mile long Tsangpo Gorge, possibly the world's deepest, was the conduit by which megafloods from glacial lakes, perhaps half the volume of Lake Erie, drained catastrophically through the Himalayas when their ice dams failed during the last 2 million years.

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Recommended Resources ? Teaching Truly by Four Arrows ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Readers of ?Teaching Truly Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education (Critical Praxis and Curriculum Guides)? will find that this long-awaited great work which addresses eight core subject areas, is the fruit of a lifetime of lived knowledge and years of practical pedagogical experience, working in harmony with relevant ... Your understanding of the teaching-learning process will expand even further beyond your present point of reference.

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Texas Instruments upbeat about revenue, chip demand

By Noel Randewich

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc gave a third-quarter revenue forecast that was stronger than some analysts had expected and said customers seem more confident about placing orders for chips.

Orders picked up in the first half of 2013 and Chief Financial Officer Kevin March told Reuters on Monday that business continues to improve, following weak demand last year due to concerns about the global economy.

Texas Instruments' book to bill ratio, a measure of orders filled, was 1.03 in the second quarter, unchanged from the prior quarter. A ratio of over 1 suggests a chipmaker received more orders than it could fill during a given period.

But TI's customers are starting to give the No. 3 U.S. chipmaker a better idea about their future needs.

"Up until this past quarter with these orders it's been for pretty short-term deliveries, so that's a bit of a change in tone and perhaps confidence on the part of our customers," March said.

Texas Instruments is winding down its wireless chip business as competition from Qualcomm and other rivals has hurt profitability. TI is focusing on its analog and embedded chips used in products ranging from cars to televisions and which account for the bulk of the company's revenue.

Analog and embedded account for 78 percent of TI's revenue, up 6 percentage points from a year ago, the company said.

TI posted second-quarter revenue of $3.047 billion, down 9 percent from the year-ago period.

Net income jumped to $660 million, or 58 cents a share, from $446 million, or 38 cents a share, in the 2012 second quarter.

In the third quarter, revenue will range from $3.09 billion to $3.35 billion, the company estimated.

Analysts on average had expected revenue of $3.059 billion for the second quarter and $3.199 billion for the third quarter, which ends in September, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Texas Instruments estimated earnings per share of 49 to 57 cents in the third quarter.

Shares of Texas Instruments rose 1.95 percent in extended trade after closing up 0.43 percent at $37.42 on Nasdaq.

(Reporting by Noel Randewich; Editing by Richard Chang)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-instruments-upbeat-revenue-chip-demand-221804871.html

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New research shows weight a factor in graduate school admissions

Public release date: 22-Jul-2013
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BOWLING GREEN, O.Want to go to graduate school? Your weight could determine whether or not you receive an offer of admission.

The study by Bowling Green State University Ph.D. candidates Jacob Burmeister and Allison Kiefner; Dr. Dara Musher-Eizenman, a professor of developmental psychology; and Dr. Robert Carels, an associate professor of clinical psychology, appeared in the May edition of the journal Obesity.

"Weight Bias in Graduate School Admissions" found that applicants with a high body mass index (BMI) were less likely to be offered admission after an in-person interview.

The researchers followed 97 applicants who had applied to psychology graduate programs at more than 950 universities in the United States. Letters of recommendation were coded for positive and negative statements as well as overall quality.

"One of the things we suspected was the quality of their letters of recommendation written by their undergrad mentors would be associated with the applicants' body weight, but it really wasn't," said Burmeister. "It may be that letter writers come to know students well and body weight no longer played a factor."

The students told researchers about their application experiences, including whether they had an interview in person or on the phone, and whether or not they received an offer of admission.

"When we looked at that we could see a clear relation between their weight and offers of admission for those applicants who had had an in-person interview," Burmeister said. "The success rate for people who had had no interview or a phone interview was pretty much equal, but when in-person interviews were involved, there was quite a bit of difference, even when applicants started out on equal footing with their grades, test scores and letters of recommendation."

The results also suggested the weight bias was stronger for female applicants.

Burmeister said the research team was not surprised. "We know that these kinds of biases are pretty common and even somewhat acceptable compared to other biases, and there's not much legally forbidding it."

He said additional research is necessary into other fields besides psychology, and those results could show an even stronger bias against applicants with a high BMI.

"We might expect psychology faculty to be more aware of these types of biases. Thus, the level of bias found in this study could be a conservative estimate of the level of bias in the graduate admissions process in other fields."

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Public release date: 22-Jul-2013
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Contact: Jen Sobolewski
jsobole@bgsu.edu
Bowling Green State University

BOWLING GREEN, O.Want to go to graduate school? Your weight could determine whether or not you receive an offer of admission.

The study by Bowling Green State University Ph.D. candidates Jacob Burmeister and Allison Kiefner; Dr. Dara Musher-Eizenman, a professor of developmental psychology; and Dr. Robert Carels, an associate professor of clinical psychology, appeared in the May edition of the journal Obesity.

"Weight Bias in Graduate School Admissions" found that applicants with a high body mass index (BMI) were less likely to be offered admission after an in-person interview.

The researchers followed 97 applicants who had applied to psychology graduate programs at more than 950 universities in the United States. Letters of recommendation were coded for positive and negative statements as well as overall quality.

"One of the things we suspected was the quality of their letters of recommendation written by their undergrad mentors would be associated with the applicants' body weight, but it really wasn't," said Burmeister. "It may be that letter writers come to know students well and body weight no longer played a factor."

The students told researchers about their application experiences, including whether they had an interview in person or on the phone, and whether or not they received an offer of admission.

"When we looked at that we could see a clear relation between their weight and offers of admission for those applicants who had had an in-person interview," Burmeister said. "The success rate for people who had had no interview or a phone interview was pretty much equal, but when in-person interviews were involved, there was quite a bit of difference, even when applicants started out on equal footing with their grades, test scores and letters of recommendation."

The results also suggested the weight bias was stronger for female applicants.

Burmeister said the research team was not surprised. "We know that these kinds of biases are pretty common and even somewhat acceptable compared to other biases, and there's not much legally forbidding it."

He said additional research is necessary into other fields besides psychology, and those results could show an even stronger bias against applicants with a high BMI.

"We might expect psychology faculty to be more aware of these types of biases. Thus, the level of bias found in this study could be a conservative estimate of the level of bias in the graduate admissions process in other fields."

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Turkish Police Crash Taksim Wedding Party

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by Naharnet Newsdesk 20 July 2013, 17:51

Nuray and Ozgur fell in love behind the barricades of last month's mass anti-government protests in Istanbul, and their wedding ceremony would have been incomplete without the Turkish police.

So when the couple picked the epicenter of the revolt on Taksim Square as the venue to tie the knot Saturday, the anti-riot police obliged and provided the water cannon.

Baton-wielding police broke up a crowd of around a thousand fellow activists who had turned up for the wedding of Nuray Cokol, a 32-year-old nurse, and Ozgur Kaya, a 34-year-old electrician, in Gezi Park.

The wedding guests, veterans of the protests that started on May 31 and rattled Turkey's government, had turned up to celebrate what the Turkish press has called "the love story of the uprising".

"Long live the resistance, long live love," shouted the protesters-cum-wedding guests before police backed by water cannon dispersed them.

Five people died during the three weeks of protests that saw an estimated 2.5 million people take to the streets in 80 different cities to demand Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's resignation.

What began as a protest against plans to redevelop Gezi Park, which is adjacent to Istanbul's Taksim Square, soon evolved into an unprecedented nationwide movement against Turkey's Islamist-rooted government.

The authorities had closed the park to the public after police forced protesters out on June 15. It was reopened 10 days ago but demonstrations remain banned.

Source: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/91329-turkish-police-crash-taksim-wedding-party

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KTVU Claims Copyright to Try and Scrub Fake ... - Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mandy Nagy ?? Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 5:00pm

This is turning out to be a case of one TV station that just seems determined to perpetuate the Streisand Effect.

KTVU, which was recently duped into reading off the very obviously fake names of several purported pilots from Asiana Flight 214, has apparently been trying to scrub its embarrassing blunder from the internet.

Matthew Keys (yeah, that Matthew Keys) has the scoop:

The station has started filing copyright infringement notices with YouTube ordering the removal of several videos depicting KTVU?s embarrassing misidentification of four pilots aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport earlier in the month.

Two videos uploaded by the account MatthewKeysLive for use on The Desk and elsewhere were removed by YouTube after copyright infringement notices were submitted by KTVU in an apparent attempt to scrub the internet of the gaffe. Several videos that also showed KTVU?s error and subsequent apology were removed on other YouTube accounts.

Indeed, when I checked the posts that I?ve done on this story, the videos have been disabled.

But as Keys points out, they?re still available through other YouTube accounts.? He also says his blog has submitted counter-notifications with YouTube citing copyright law?s fair use provision.? Given that the videos were used by numerous blogs and news outlets for the purpose of reporting it as news (as well as comment and criticism), I agree, I would think there?s an argument to be made for fair use.? I?ll let the lawyers in the peanut gallery weigh in on that one.

Who knows, though ? Asiana Airlines did ultimately reverse an earlier decision to sue the TV station over the report.? Maybe that factors into why KTVU is now trying to have the videos memory-holed.

Regardless of KTVU?s reasons, it seems to me this will only draw more attention to the matter, since everyone knows, you never really delete something from every corner of the interwebz.

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Source: http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/ktvu-claims-copyright-to-try-and-scrub-fake-pilot-names-blunder-from-internet/

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